Unimog: 73 years and still in good shape 🎥
EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD The Unimog, the all-round commercial vehicle from Mercedes-Benz, was a sensational novelty for visitors at an agricultural trade fair in Frankfurt am Main more than 70 years ago. Ellen Lohr, racing driver and brand ambassador of Mercedes-Benz, shows the Unimog history in the museum. When it was presented at the fair in 1948, the Unimog was called [...]
Ellen Lohr, racing driver and brand ambassador of Mercedes-Benz, shows the Unimog history in the museum.
When it was presented at the trade fair in 1948, the Unimog was not yet called Mercedes-Benz Unimog, but belonged to the Boehringer machine factory in Göppingen. At the exhibition of the German Agricultural Society in Frankfurt am Main, it was a real surprise.
Maximum speed of 50 km/h and 25 hp
For the first time, visitors to the fair got to see a farm tractor with two seats, a loading area, four-wheel drive and sprung axles. Its top speed was a respectable 50 km/h.
The four-cylinder diesel engine from Daimler-Benz provided 25 hp and thus inspired confidence along with all the innovations.
There were already over 150 orders for the premiere
Although the vehicle was presented to a wider public for the first time, it met with a high level of acceptance right from the start: the Boehringer team went home with over 150 orders in their luggage.
Over 600 Unimogs were then built at Boehringer in Göppingen from February 1949 onwards, before the universal motor vehicle was produced in Gaggenau from 1951 and then in Wörth as the Mercedes-Benz Unimog.
The rest is history: today, the Unimog is a state-of-the-art truck for which, as our gallery shows, there are virtually no hurdles,
